Charles Webster Jewett was an Indiana

Indiana

Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

 lawyer and Republican

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 politician. Jewett, who studied law at Harvard University

Harvard University

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, was chosen as chairman of the Marion County

Marion County, Indiana

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 Republican Committee in 1914. He was the mayor

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 of Indianapolis from 1918 to 1921. In the 1917 Republican primary election

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 for the mayoral candidacy, Jewett had defeated Samuel L. Shank who eventually succeeded him as mayor. In 1938, Jewett ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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 and lost to the incumbent Louis Ludlow

Louis Ludlow

Louis Leon Ludlow was a Democratic Indiana congressman; he proposed a constitutional amendment early in 1938 requiring a national referendum on any U.S. declaration of war except in cases of direct attack...

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